On Apr 26, 2007, at 11:14 am, Chuck Leggett wrote: > Once you've seen a bunch of monuments and museums in DC, what else is > there? > > How about something else, something real that is more humanizing?
HEY! I'm a real-deal Washingtonian, 8th generation in fact, and I'm human. And not one person in my family was a politician. Carpenters, bread delivery truck loaders, phone company employees, construction managers, teachers, mothers (bad ones, but that's a whole other story). There are a lot of humans who live in D.C.. And have nothing to do with Washington Politics. so DON'T KNOCK MY CITY! ;-) If you want to see DC, and see beyond the tourist worlds, then get off the Mall, and go see the real DC. That happens in every city -- the typical huge convention make people think they've been to a city, when really they've just been to the airport, the convention center, the convention hotel, the four convention hotel Starbucks, and the three Au Bon Pans. At least DC makes it easy to get beyond that! There aren't any Au Bon Pans wedged between the Smithsonians. Which, btw, take days and days and days to see, so anyone traveling from out of town who does want to experience what the DC Mall has to offer (and the "Mall" is a park space, not a shopping center) -- then come for an extra week to 10 days. http://www.gosmithsonian.com/ http://www.nps.gov/nama/ I have a feeling much of the Vloggercon days will be spent with Vloggercon people in Vloggercon spaces -- that's a lot already! This does raise a good question, what "pre-conference" / "post- conference" activities do we want? A group trip to the Air and Space Museum to see the spaceships -- you know, the REAL SPACESHIPS? http://www.nasm.si.edu/exhibitions/gal114/ To connect with a community media arts center in town? Connect with people working on Fair Use (Center for Social Media), Net Neutrality, FCC issues. Like maybe: http://www.videoaction.org/ http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/ http://www.creativevoices.us/ http://www.ctcnet.org/ http://www.mediaaccess.org/ jen [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
